Sándor Pethes
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kassa, Austria-Hungary [now Kosice, Slovak Republic]
Birthday: August 28, 1899
Deathday: June 29, 1981
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Black City
Overview: Feature film version of the 1971 series.
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Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1972-11-26
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Purple Lilacs
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1934-09-06
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Katyi
Overview: Kató Varga (Klári Tolnay) is unable to play its part in front of the Admissions Committee of the School of Dramatic Art. Geszty (Tivadar Bilicsi), severe President of the Commission maintains that she has no talent for acting and mercilessly tells you will never be an actress. Kató prepares to take revenge and under the false name of Katyi Csiba, dressed as a peasant village, obtains admission to the house Geszty. Turning everything upside down, she makes your life hell.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1942-12-17
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The Lady is a Little Crazy
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1938-10-11
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A gazdátlan asszony
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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Ida regénye
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Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1934-03-15
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Don't Keep Off the Grass
Overview: Daddy Kárász, the stakhanovist worker, complains in a television interview about the fact that his family, consisting of many members, cannot get a home on their own. Kéri, the chairman of the local authority, promises to help him on the condition that if he does not, they may move in to his villa at elegant Pasarét. Nothing happens, therefore the Kárász family takes Kéri by his word. From this time on, tumultuous scenes and frequent quarrels take place in the villa between the two families.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1960-10-06
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Egy ember, aki nincs
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1964-02-20
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Love Travelling a Coach
Overview: The top management of the co-operative in the rural community at Lake Balaton goes on coaches everywhere to irritate Mrs. Peczöli, the snobbish wife of the only individual farmer. Peczöli would readily join the co-operative, should it not oppose his apple improving experiments.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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A férfi mind őrült
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1937-09-29
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A Train of Ghosts
Overview: Remake of the English movie Ghost Train (1931, Walter Forde). Seven people are stranded for a stormy night at a remote, unmanned railroad station past which, every midnight, steams the "ghost" of a train which wrecked there 20 years ago.
Genres: Comedy Horror Mystery
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1933-04-15
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The Five-Forty
Overview: Set in Paris (which looks more like Budapest), the story concerns a murder investigation conducted by one Judge Henri Tessier. The audience is led to believe that Robert Petrovich, estranged husband of Tessier's sweetheart Marion, is responsible for the murder.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1939-09-12
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Tökéletes férfi
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Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1939-08-30
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Deadly Spring
Overview: The subject of this film is Dr. Ivan Egry, a young man, who becomes infatuated with Edit Ralben, the beautiful, but flirtatious, daughter of a prominent man. As the two get involved romantically, problems start to plague their relationship. When they end up separating, Ivan finds comfort with Josza, a pretty girl, much more stable than Edit, but far less glamorous. When Edit eventually re-enters Ivan’s life, he can’t resist her. Unable to resolve his conflicting emotions results in an abruptly tragic finale.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1939-12-21
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The Dream Car
Overview: A light hearted comedy, from the thirties. One of the most successful ones in Hungary. The ever enchanting story of a beautiful girl falling in love with a rich man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1934-12-14
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Marriage
Overview: Dr. Szabó Péter, a busy head surgeon, forgets that it is his wife's birthday today. He returns from work tired, and is in no mood to join the company invited by Mária, his wife. The couple have an argument. Mária feels her life is in a rut, while she is blamed by Péter for not being an enthusiastic housewife. Mária then follows her guests into a night-club, where she is thrown off-balance by Mohai, a suave pianist, who starts courting her fervently.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1942-08-23
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The Chequered Coat
Overview: Mrs. Takács, a widow and a postmistress living in the country, is about to marry her two daughters.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1940-11-21
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Me and My Grandpa
Overview: A few days from a daily life of a regular school in Hungary during fifties.
Genres: Family Adventure Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1954-11-18
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Szervusz Péter!
Overview: Peter is mistaken for a famous African traveler. At the request of his friend for a week it takes over the role, but Eva learns the role exchange and plans to take advantage of this knowledge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-09
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Kádár vs. Kerekes
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Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1942-04-20
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Alpine Sunlight
Overview: Ágnes, Vass and Kriszt run a sanatorium for consumptives. Fifi, daughter of the institute owner is also here, mortally ill. Feri, the ski trainer relieves her with his courtship every now and then from her boredom and distress.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1941-05-21
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Back on the Road
Overview: Kovács, chief cashier, is celebrating the 30th anniversary of his school-leaving exams at the grammar-school. He takes his friends to a night-club.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1941-02-17
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Légy jó mindhalálig
Overview: The story follows the life of a bright and sensitive schoolboy growing up in an old, established boarding school in the city of Debrecen in eastern Hungary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1936-03-17
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Young Noszty and Mary Toth
Overview: Another winner from Hungarian director Ivan Szekely (aka S.K. Seeley and Steve Sekely), A Nosty fiu Esete Toth Marival was released in English-speaking regions as I Married for Love. Feri Noszty (Paul Javor) is a handsome but irresponsible Hussar officer who prefers a life of wine, women and song to his military responsibilities. Unwilling to bow to family pressure, Feri refuses to marry heiress Mary Toth (Eva Szorenyi) for her dowry alone. But Mary falls in love with the prideful Feri, and to win his affections she poses as her own poverty-stricken maid. Based on a novel by Kalman Mikszath, A Noszty Fiu Esete Toth Marival was filmed simultaneously in Hungarian- and German-language versions.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1938-01-20
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Iron Flower
Overview: During the worldwide Depression of the 1930s, a young shopgirl is in love with a man of her own financial class, but succumbs to the seductive machinations of her wealthy boss.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1958-05-01
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Tale on the 12 Points
Overview: The flat of Doctor Bartha is wetting, the Communal Management Enterprise does not act, the doctor and his wife are at the edge of divorce. Géza would marry his colleague, Kató, but mum is sick, the apartment is small, no money. Uncle Károly is fed up with unsuitable, charlatan business managers. Vali would marry, in order not to live on Titi and Piri any more, but the selected man wants to have a woman with her own apartment. All of them have a chance by the lottery, especially by hitting twelve scores.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1957-02-07
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Villa for Sale
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1935-04-10
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There's Only One Girl in the World
Overview: György Bánáth landowner and Miklós Vass the teacher, on the verge of collapse, trudging all the way from Siberia where they have spent more than ten years as POWs, trying to prevent each other from falling from fatigue on the way home. Both become regular visitors to the Pálffy family and they both make amorous advances to Katinka, the beautiful daughter of the local vicar.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1930-05-12
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Az iglói diákok
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Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1935-02-21
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Spring Sonata
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1942-09-18
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Szent Péter esernyője
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1935-11-14
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Sparrows Are Birds Too
Overview: A comedy about two twin brothers - Sándor, who emigrated and became a rich man, and Zoltán, who stayed in Hungary and lives the life of an average working-class man. When Sándor visits his twin brother, they are constantly mistaken for each other, and when Zoltán sees how differently people treat Sándor because of his money and his foreign citizenship, he begins to like being mistaken for him - until he realizes that this means he will lose his girlfriend Szöszi...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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A Bowl of Lentils
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1941-03-05
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On Home Grounds
Overview: This ironic comedy is set in the god-forsaken Kiskúnbékás, at the end of the fifties. There are no jobs, the town's "golden team", who once were third class national soccer players have scattered
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1969-01-23
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At Last
Overview: Julia, a spoiled mistress always looks for trouble After running away from her own engagement, she must stay at the shelter of an engineer in the woods.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-04
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Yes or No?
Overview: How did a beautiful American divorcee get into the bed of her best friend's fiancé right after returning to Budapest?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1940-09-26
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Miss President
Overview: The young, immature Zsuzsa Várkonyi becomes the president of the Várkonyi Textile Factory. When the managing director proposes to her, she tells him she is in love with a young engineer who she doesn't really know anything about.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1935-06-05
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The Crucial Moment
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1938-03-20
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Run to be Caught
Overview: Dangerous spies act as representatives of an international recording company to get important plans from the father of an aspiring composer.
Genres: Comedy Crime Music
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1972-09-14
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The Sun Shines
Overview: The village is preparing for the celebration of Mihály Sámson's entry to the Vitéz Order. There's a great competition for roles in the amateur theatrical performance, and the choir is practicing. Two girls compete for the attention of Gyula Kopácsi, the railway traffic controller: Jolán, the postal clerk, and the pastor's daughter, Sárika. Jolán's mother spreads rumors during the rehearsal of the performance that Kopácsi has already proposed to her daughter, even though he's actually leaning towards Sárika. However, at the celebration, Sárika and Sámson notice each other...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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Professor, Please...
Overview: In the story which takes place at the beginning of the century Károly Bauer pupil experiences a series of everyday failures during twenty four hours in the family, on the street and at school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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The Siege of Beszterce
Overview: The film evokes count Pongrácz, who, as late as the 19th century, managed to live a life, which reminds one of his medieval ancestor's values. He acts in defiance of the town by fighting his own battle against it, having been offended by the town.
Genres: History Drama Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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Pénz áll a házhoz
Overview: When Lajos Molnár loses his job and his love his friends tell him that a recently deceased Argentinian relative left millions to him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-20
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János Háry
Overview: János Háry, the old veteran is telling his stories in the pub without end.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-01
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Mickey Magnate
Overview: Baracs Pista, engineer at the construction site of a railway line near the Korláthy estate, falls in love with Rolla, a countess disguised as a peasant girl. The count is giving a party as he wants the railway line to go across his lands.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1949-07-09
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Estélyi ruha kötelező
Overview: You can get anywhere in a tailcoat. Viktor Norton, a young man imprisoned by mistake, also knows this. In Viktor’s tailcoat, he can easily get to the Excelsior Hotel, where he will meet the newly wealthy Dupont couple and their daughter Marie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1942-08-14
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Goose Boy
Overview: A young peasant boy stands up to tyranny, aided by his trusting friend- a goose.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1950-02-27
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Springtime in Budapest
Overview: At Christmas Eve in 1944 the runaway Pintér and Gozsó get through the Soviet blockade around Budapest. Pintér intends to hide in a flat abandoned by his own relatives, but he finds his relatives called the Turnovszkys, who are hiding the Jewish Jutka as well. Love unfolds between Zoltán and Jutka.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1955-04-02
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The Day of Wrath
Overview: In May 1919 in a small rural town beside Salgótarján the local high society wants to get the power back with the leadership of dr. Máriáss, exploiting the outside attack launched against the Republic of Councils.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1953-11-12
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Keep Your Chin Up!
Overview: On the Spring of 1945 the Jackson circus is heading towards the border with the clown Peti and Aida, the elephant. They have to play for the Hungarian Fascists, while Peti is hiding the Jew Annuska and Sanyika.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1954-08-19
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Lily Boy
Overview: Liliomfi is a 1954 Hungarian comedy film directed by Károly Makk. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. Set in the "Golden Era" of the wandering Hungarian theatre troupes. Mariska and Liliomfi fall in love without suspecting that Mariska's foster father, Professor Szilvay, is also Liliomfi's uncle. Soon the couple must contend with the professor's plan to make Liliomfi give up his "unrespectable" profession of acting by exposing the professor's hypocrisy, greed, and tyrannical selfishness.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1955-02-24
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A Strange Mark of Identity
Overview: Imre, secretary of the illegal communist party arrives in Budapest secretly in 1942, in order to start the newspaper of the party in the fight against war. Not even his own mother can see him.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-13
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Leila and Gábor
Overview: Buda is mastered by the Turks. Student Gábor and his companion flee a troop into the castle, just in the garden of Gül Baba. Gábor and Leila, the daughter of Gül Baba fall in love with each other. Ali pasha, who wants to marry the girl, has the two Hungarians caught in order to let them be executed.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-22
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Spring Shower
Overview: It tells the story of Marie, an austerely beautiful young peasant girl played by the French star, Annabella. She is seduced beneath a flowering tree by the admirer of one of the daughters of the prosperous family for whom she works, becomes pregnant and is cast out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1932-11-04
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At Midnight
Overview: On New Year's Eve in 1956 the artist couple, the actor János and the dancer Viki are hastily packing. While they are waiting for the car, which is to take them across the border, their entire life is replayed in front of their eyes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1957-12-25
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The Brigade No. 39
Overview: The spring of 1919. Karikás Frigyes reorganises brigade 39 at the Tisza. His most devoted soldiers are Korbély János and his followers, who remain faithful to the political commissioner under all circumstances.
Genres: History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1959-03-19
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A nőnek mindig sikerül
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Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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Alba Regia
Overview: A Hungarian doctor, Dr. Hajnal, who always considered himself out of politics, falls in love with the Soviet intelligence agent, the radio operator Alba, operating in the occupied Wehrmacht of Hungary. By accident, the radio operator is hiding in the doctor’s house. Hainal is drawn into a life-threatening confrontation with the Germans. A difficult question arises before him: to remain neutral when people die around and Alba is threatened with death, or to remain an honest person — to make his personal choice and take part in this struggle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1961-03-30
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Késő
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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Férfihűség
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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A '28-as'
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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Sleepless Years
Overview: The "sleepless years" in this propaganda piece by director Felix Marlassy occur on Csepel Island, an island south of Budapest that is home to an armaments factory. The factory workers are shown being exploited by imperialists, capitalists gone berserk, and fascists, more or less in that exact chronological sequence. The heavy-handed approach does much to undercut the belief that when socialism finally takes over, the lives of the workers are brought up to a human level. In this instance, audiences might prefer a more nuanced and subtle statement, no matter what the message.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1959-01-21
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Sirius
Overview: Based on the Hungarian writer Ferenc Herczeg's novel written in 1894, this film takes the viewers to the past of Hungary. Professor Sergius (Elemér Baló) insists that he invented a machine that can fly faster than the speed of earth's rotation and this enables him (or anyone who travels with him) to fly back with it to the past; that is to travel in time. To prove this the professor promises the hand of his daughter Rózsi (Katalin Karády) and all his possessions to the one who is willing to try the 'space travel' with him in his machine. The romantic and adventurous Hungarian count Ákos Tibor (László Szilassy) finally accepts the challenge. For the count's luck before the time travel he attends a costume ball dressed as a Hungarian hussar. Because when they arrive in the past, people think that he is a far relative of the wealthy landlord whose field they landed. This is how the strange adventures begins for our 20th century hero in the world of the 18th century Austro-Hungary.
Genres: Science Fiction History Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1942-01-10
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